Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:50:35 +0100 From: Diego Calleja <diegocglinux@yahoo.es> To: "Jorn Argelo" <jorn@wcborstel.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20041126115035.08b0cee6.diegocglinux@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <20041125221914.M81723@wcborstel.nl> References: <51611.192.168.0.200.1101398532.squirrel@192.168.0.200> <200411251706.22229.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <1101405168.99948.43.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <200411251807.47294.mark@markdnet.demon.co.uk> <20041125194327.C5321@bigtower.net> <1101411381.568.1.camel@grass.dyndns.org> <1101411674.99948.51.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <86u0rdr9l0.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> <1101412864.568.7.camel@grass.dyndns.org> <41A63AE3.9020008@mukappabeta.de> <20041125221914.M81723@wcborstel.nl>
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El Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:23:57 +0100 "Jorn Argelo" <jorn@wcborstel.nl> escribi=F3: [...] > Also, I don't think many people will exactly understand how it works > anyway. At least, one may assume that GPUs are really complicated.=20 >From what I've heard to the x.org guys, programming such drivers is a very complex task. Several DRI developers have access to the ATI r2xx specs and the driver is 100% opensource, but the driver is still quite inferior compared with the available binary drivers. Lack of experience of the opensource community when it comes to "graphics" is IMHO a problem too (we know how to build servers and how to build drivers for network cards, but "desktops" are somewhat different and not many people knows/cares about 3D acceleration).=20 IMHO supported opensource drivers are much better than open specs. That's what Intel seems to be doing or they are planning to do or there's a hope that they'll do, I've heard. Intel seems to be more opensource-friendly lately, at least they're releasing specs for some of their hardware, like this littel jewel: http://www.intel.com/technology/serialata/pdf/rev1_0.pdf
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